The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
JAMES MADISONThe purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
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The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
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